Introduction
August 2014
Dear Newhouse Student:
Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.
As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined your degree requirements and the School Rules and Regulations in this handbook. You are responsible for knowing these requirements.
We don’t expect you to digest all the requirements at once. You should focus at the outset on the Skills and Divisional Requirements. We will be reviewing the rest of the materials in advising sessions this fall. Some of the requirements described here may sound familiar to you since they were included in much less detail in the directions for your First-Term Enrollment this summer. Even if they sound familiar, please review these requirements once more.
You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Associate and Assistant Deans for Student Affairs, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.
You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 443-4722).
One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under Advising Services on your SU portal. While you are required to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, you can see your adviser at any time during the semester throughout your four years. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.
In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Advising and Records Office, the Dean’s Office, the Department offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under Advising Services on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may call him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time. Most advisers can also be reached by email.
As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.
As a junior or a senior, you will not be required to see your adviser for registration purposes, although you certainly should if you have questions. This choice is extended to juniors and seniors recognizing that most are well versed in their degree requirements. By extending this privilege, we are not encouraging you to see your adviser less frequently, but we are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing your minor, electives, career goals, and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.
In the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you to help monitor your academic progress. The Newhouse staff adviser is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. He or she will also maintain your records, a copy of which is kept in this office. Before your senior year, you will be required to meet with your staff adviser and have a DEGREE CHECK which will outline what you have left to complete to earn your Bachelor’s degree. At other times, if you feel uncertain about your requirements, you may request a copy of your check sheet to review with your adviser.
We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email regularly. You should also visit the Newhouse Career Development Center (313 Newhouse 3) to seek career advice and to sign up for appropriate workshops as you transition from campus media to off-campus internships.
Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.
Sincerely,
Dean
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
August 2015
Dear Newhouse Student:
Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.
As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined your degree requirements and the School Rules and Regulations in this handbook. You are responsible for knowing these requirements.
We don’t expect you to digest all the requirements at once. You should focus at the outset on the Skills and Divisional Requirements. We will be reviewing the rest of the materials in advising sessions this fall. Some of the requirements described here may sound familiar to you since they were included in much less detail in the directions for your First-Term Enrollment this summer. Even if they sound familiar, please review these requirements once more.
You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Associate and Assistant Deans for Student Affairs, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.
You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 443-4722).
One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under Advising Services on your SU portal. While you are required to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, you can see your adviser at any time during the semester throughout your four years. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.
In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Advising and Records Office, the Dean’s Office, the Department offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under Advising Services on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may call him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time. Most advisers can also be reached by email.
As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.
As a junior or a senior, you will not be required to see your adviser for registration purposes, although you certainly should if you have questions. This choice is extended to juniors and seniors recognizing that most are well versed in their degree requirements. By extending this privilege, we are not encouraging you to see your adviser less frequently, but we are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing your minor, electives, career goals, and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.
In the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you to help monitor your academic progress. The Newhouse staff adviser is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. He or she will also maintain your records, a copy of which is kept in this office. Before your senior year, you will be required to meet with your staff adviser and have a DEGREE CHECK which will outline what you have left to complete to earn your Bachelor’s degree. At other times, if you feel uncertain about your requirements, you may request a copy of your check sheet to review with your adviser.
We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU emailregularly. You should also visit the Newhouse Career Development Center (313 Newhouse 3) to seek career advice and to sign up for appropriate workshops as you transition from campus media to off-campus internships.
Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.
Sincerely,
Dean
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
August 2016
Dear Newhouse Student:
Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.
As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined your degree requirements and the School Rules and Regulations in this handbook. You are responsible for knowing these requirements.
We don’t expect you to digest all the requirements at once. You should focus at the outset on the Skills and Divisional Requirements. We will be reviewing the rest of the materials in advising sessions this fall. Some of the requirements described here may sound familiar to you since they were included in much less detail in the directions for your First-Term Enrollment this summer. Even if they sound familiar, please review these requirements once more.
You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Associate and Assistant Deans for Student Affairs, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.
You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 443-4722).
One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under Advising Services on your SU portal. While you are required to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, you can see your adviser at any time during the semester throughout your four years. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.
In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Dean’s Office, the Department offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under Advising Services on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may call him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time. Most advisers can also be reached by email.
As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.
As a junior or a senior, you will not be required to see your adviser for registration purposes, although you certainly should if you have questions. This choice is extended to juniors and seniors recognizing that most are well versed in their degree requirements. By extending this privilege, we are not encouraging you to see your adviser less frequently, but we are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing your minor, electives, career goals, and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.
In the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you to help monitor your academic progress. The Newhouse staff adviser is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. He or she will also maintain your records, a copy of which is kept in this office. Before your senior year, you will be required to meet with your staff adviser and have a DEGREE CHECK which will outline what you have left to complete to earn your Bachelor’s degree. At other times, if you feel uncertain about your requirements, you may request a copy of your check sheet to review with your adviser.
We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email regularly. You should also visit the Newhouse Career Development Center (313 Newhouse 3) to seek career advice and to sign up for appropriate workshops as you transition from campus media to off-campus internships.
Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.
Sincerely,
Dean
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
August 2017
Dear Newhouse Student:
Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.
As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined your degree requirements and the School Rules and Regulations in this handbook. You are responsible for knowing these requirements.
We don’t expect you to digest all the requirements at once. You should focus at the outset on the Skills and Divisional Requirements. We will be reviewing the rest of the materials in advising sessions this fall. Some of the requirements described here may sound familiar to you since they were included in much less detail in the directions for your First-Term Enrollment this summer. Even if they sound familiar, please review these requirements once more.
You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Associate and Assistant Deans for Student Affairs, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.
You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 315-443-4722).
One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under Advising Services on your SU portal. While you are required to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, you can see your adviser at any time during the semester throughout your four years. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.
In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Dean’s Office, the Department offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under Advising Services on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may call or email him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time.
As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.
As a junior or a senior, you will not be required to see your adviser for registration purposes, although you certainly should if you have questions. This choice is extended to juniors and seniors recognizing that most are well versed in their degree requirements. By extending this privilege, we are not encouraging you to see your adviser less frequently, but we are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing your minor, electives, career goals, and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.
In the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you to help monitor your academic progress. The Newhouse staff adviser is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. He or she will also maintain your records, a copy of which is kept in this office. Before your senior year, you will be required to meet with your staff adviser and review your DEGREE AUDIT which will outline what you have left to complete to earn your Bachelor’s degree. At other times, if you feel uncertain about your requirements, you should request a meeting to review your requirements with your adviser.
We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email regularly. You should also visit the Newhouse Career Development Center (313 Newhouse 3) to seek career advice and to sign up for appropriate workshops as you transition from campus media to off-campus internships.
Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.
Sincerely,
Dean
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
August 2018
Dear Newhouse Student:
Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.
As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined your degree requirements and the School Rules and Regulations in this handbook. You are responsible for knowing these requirements.
We don’t expect you to digest all the requirements at once. You should focus at the outset on the Skills and Divisional Requirements. We will be reviewing the rest of the materials in advising sessions this fall. Some of the requirements described here may sound familiar to you since they were included in much less detail in the directions for your First-Term Enrollment this summer. Even if they sound familiar, please review these requirements once more.
You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Associate and Assistant Deans for Student Affairs, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.
You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 315-443-4722).
One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under Advising Services on your SU portal. While you are required to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, you can see your adviser at any time during the semester throughout your four years. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.
In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Dean’s Office, the Department offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under Advising Services on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may call or email him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time.
As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.
As a junior or a senior, you will not be required to see your adviser for registration purposes, although you certainly should if you have questions. This choice is extended to juniors and seniors recognizing that most are well versed in their degree requirements. By extending this privilege, we are not encouraging you to see your adviser less frequently, but we are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing your minor, electives, career goals, and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.
In the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you to help monitor your academic progress. The Newhouse staff adviser is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. He or she will also maintain your records, a copy of which is kept in this office. Before your senior year, you will be required to meet with your staff adviser and review your DEGREE AUDIT which will outline what you have left to complete to earn your Bachelor’s degree. At other times, if you feel uncertain about your requirements, you should request a meeting to review your requirements with your adviser.
We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email regularly. You should also visit the Newhouse Career Development Center (313 Newhouse 3) to seek career advice and to sign up for appropriate workshops as you transition from campus media to off-campus internships.
Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.
Sincerely,
Dean
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Educational Goals
The Newhouse School’s mission is to educate ethical, visionary communicators whose goal is to establish an open marketplace of ideas guided by the First Amendment using contemporary professional practices. In the course of earning their degree, students are expected to achieve the following educational outcomes:
- Demonstrate strong writing ability.
- Demonstrate the ability to construct and tell a story effectively in spoken words, images, text and through multi-media.
- Understand and make use of information technology, and grasp its import for society.
- Understand effective visual language and how to apply it to create visual messages and enhance communications.
- Understand the events and issues of the day in public communications and society in an environment both encouraged and deepened by the liberal arts experience.
- Think analytically, gain numerical proficiency and learn to develop well-researched positions on issues.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the historical traditions in public communications and of industry practices and products.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of ethical practice in the communications field, along with an understanding of the responsibilities media practitioners have for the public welfare.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the First Amendment freedoms of speech and press along with a commitment to using these freedoms in the service of democracy.
- Demonstrate the ability to work within a team under deadline pressure.
- Develop the knowledge to compare and contrast media systems around the world.
- Learn to value, embrace and support diversity in society and the media.
- Learn to access, evaluate, synthesize and make use of information in the creation of media products.
- Become media literate and a critical consumer of media content.
The Newhouse School’s mission is to educate ethical, visionary communicators whose goal is to establish an open marketplace of ideas guided by the First Amendment using contemporary professional practices. In the course of earning their degree, students are expected to achieve the following educational outcomes:
- Identify the principles and laws of free speech and press for the U. S., as well as compare the American system of freedom of expression with others around the world, including the right to dissent, to monitor and criticize power, and to assemble and petition for redress of grievances.
- Describe how professionalization has historically shaped the institutions in communications.
- Explain mass communication in relation to social identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and, as appropriate, other forms of diversity in American society.
- Recognize how the diversity of peoples and cultures has shaped mass communications in a global society.
- Apply theories and concepts of design and visual communication to the use and presentation of images and information.
- Recognize professional ethical principles and apply them in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness and diversity.
- Critically, creatively, and independently consider problems and issues relevant to the communications professions.
- Conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the communications professions.
- Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences and purposes they serve.
- Critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style and grammatical correctness.
- Apply basic numerical and statistical concepts.
- Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the communications professions in which they work.